Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-07
ITEE OF INTEREST.


not to bury HINT sea.
THE English louise of Commons recently
spent more thanhalf day discussing an item
involving flO. disgusted member offered
TO pay the flo himself il his doing so would
expedite mattet, but his proposition was
looked on as revolutionary.
TwENTY-THRE. YEARS AGO James G.
Woods of Springfield, Mo-, bought at gov
ernment sale m lie that had been condemned
| ON account of il age. He worked IL right
along for fifteen ears and then put II on the
retired list and br eight years the old mule
has had good tine. 1t has just died at the
age OF forty.
1T has general, been considered an lndis-
pensable part OF he formally Of taking an
oath in an English court that the witness
should remove hi glove, If he happens to
wear one, before aking the book in his mana.
Recently ju dye has had the coursgr 10 give
IN opinion that there was room Tor uonot
whether man nay not swear perfectly
good oath with his gloves on.
IN 1881 the Baroness Burdett- Coutts mar
ried Mr.. Bartlett, who was more than thirty
years her Junior. and Marian Evans, or
George Eliot was much older than Mr.. Cross,
whom she married In 1850, after the death or
Mr.. Lewes, To go further back, NINE. De
Ntael. another famous woman of letters, was
46 when in iSl2 she took for second husband
NJ de ROcca, a young French officer of 20.
WHILE Mrs. Col. Nathaniel Smith, OF Wood
bury, Conn, was in attendance upon public
meeting in the town hall she was suddenly
impressed that me must return home, and
did so. arriving there just in time to prevent
the destruction of her house by fire, as he
flames. which originated where the siovepipe
enters the chimney. had already got well
under Roadway. Her vigorous alarm brought
speedy he p, and 1t was soon ex'inguished.
1t is considered Gaze of special Providence.
APPARENTLY the German soldier doesn't
know much about his own country. recent
report of the Third Army Corps states that
''ony an Insignificant part knew the names
of our famous generals in modern times,
large number knew nothing at all about the
events of the last three campaigns, and the
most lamentable ignorance as to the members
of the royal house was also found to exist"
To all of which the German soldier would
probably reply that 1t is his business to fight
and not to know things.
A HIGHLY esteemed young farmer OF Hum
boldt, H., who was engaged to be married to
neighbours handsome daughter, procured
license on the day set for the ceremony and
proceeded to the residence OF his affanced.
ON arriving he learned. to his great asfonish-
ment, that his intendtd bride had been mar
ried few moments before to an old sweet
heart. The happy groom had arrived from
the West that day. gone at once TO the lady's
residence, gained her consent, procured
license and married her, all within the brief
space of three hours.
A NEW YORK MERCHANT received an ac-
count sent by Cincinnati house in which
there was an error of 4c. The latter wrote
about it. The postage on the letter was 26c.,
payable on delivery. Indignant at such
payment, and determined TO punish the New
York merchant, the Cincinnati house IN
closed him by mail a package containing
several old papers. on which the New York
merchant had to pay 81 postage. The New
York merchant returned by mail package,
the postage on which cost the Cincinnati
house IS. This was continued to the benefit
OF the post office fund to the extent of $50,
when the Cincinnati house sent by mail the
| "log book of a ship, for which the New York
merchant paid sl7 in postage and gave in
that he was beaten.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER amused Mr.. Lin
coin by telling him the following story about
an old-school orthodox divine, who, while at
tending to his usual sabbath ministrations,
| managed to discover who of his congregation
were absent, his first duty on Mondav morn
| ing being TO call on the absentees and to find
out why they were not at church. Among
| those whose places were often vacant was
| one man who cared but little for the sanctity
| Of the holy day or the reproof of the minister.
On taking his usual Monday morning rounds,
| DR. P was sure to visit Mr.. c., as we
will call him. Said the good man: "why
were you not at church yesterday" HAD
other business to attend to-" was the blunt
reply. "Mr. Co." said the clergyman. sol.
| EMMY, there will be no preaching n hell"
swell, 1t won't be for the want of ministers"
was the quick rejOinder.
| 1T has not been printed perhaps in the
| facetl8 of Mr.. Travers, collected since his
| death by the newspapers, how he was travel
| ing one day on the Hudson River road. and
requested the conductor with earnestness to
| be sure to notify him when the train arrived
at Poughkeepsle. magnate such as Trsvers
| w a mi Oha
| was walked from nap by the sudden stop
page OF the express train which stopped no.
| where, the silent attention of the car and the
| obsequious "PO'keepsie. STRIP of the Official
what, what. what, stopped the train" cried
| Trayers. "Yes, sir, you said Po'keepsien
go on. for heavens sake pull the strap, m an /!
only wanted to take PIP p,p-ill when we
train was started and Mr.. Travers took his
| pill, which was to be swallowed after the in
terval ensuing between New York and Pough-
| keepsie.
THE winter now about closed was, by all
testimony, the hardest ever experienced by
| the rugged Maine lumbermen. A man who
is employed as scaler says he was three DAYS
coming twenty-eig ht miles on foot The path
| on which he Travelled was higher than the
| snow on each side. He says if hesweryed al \
| inches to the right or left he went down the
| full length of him, and that he had to crawl
| back on his hands and knees to the road
| Every little way he would come across a
horse or pair of horses that had got ont Of
| the road. A place had been shoVeled for
| them to stand and a Dough house built over
| them, and there they were left 10 wait for a
| thaw, or a freezing that would bear them
| He overlook man who had his horse loaded
| on sled and ten men hauling him Sled
| loads of supplies were left in the road the
horses taken off in place dug for them in
| the snow. and fed from the supplies OF flour
meal, or anything that horse could eat.
DIR. GEORGE WOODS, OF Pittsburg, Pa. IA
authority for the statement that 75c. worth of
IRON ore made into bar iron is worth IS, horse
shoes $40 so. table knives $3.50, fine needles
| Sc 800. shirt buttons $29, 4S0 watch sprines
| 5000 900. hair springs SOC, 200. pallet arbors
$2,577 ,595. There is much, very much, in the
above estimate that should receive the atte n :
| ton and consideration Of our capitalists
| Said John 8. Clark, of Boston, In an addrals
| before the Franklin Institute Of PhIIadeIphia
| in 1881: 81 hold In my hand a piece of steel
Its value 10 perhaps sc. And yet il NAV be
| said to represent hariy more than so much
| raw m aterial. In this hand I hold anotb or
| piece of steel of similar quality, but less
| quantity, and yet this latter has a value OF
| $40. What makes this difference In value ?
| SIMPLY this, that human thought has been
| playing. as 1t we're, about this latter piece OF
steel, and has m ade it the basis upon which IL
hs4 ooncreted Itself so that we have an instru-
ment OF great practical use, u micrometer
caiper, mainly the product OF thought as ex-
pressed By skilled labor"
THE city of Richmond is about to build
new city hall. for which the cornerstone was
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